Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Troglodytes Unite
Jul 31, 2015
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I’ve read so much about the way technology is changing our lives that my eyes glaze when I learn another app is about to revolutionize the work place. Mostly the trend is to eliminate jobs. China, for example, has long benefitted from a large population and an abundance of cheap
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Ruminations On Museums And Sock Drawers
Jul 30, 2015
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a man who found a fish fossil that provided surprising information on evolution. (Blog 7/2/15) It wasn’t the first time I’d read about some discovery found moldering in the bowels of a museum and I always have to ask myself, “How can an object be
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The Common Denominator
Jul 29, 2015
“…the wedge isn’t what it used to be,” writes columnist, Michael Kingsley. (“What Do The Simple Folk Do?” Vanity Fair, July 2015, pg. 47.) By “wedge,” Kingsley refers to those core values, like abortion, gun control, prayer in the schools and affirmative acti
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A Kingdom Of One’s Own
Jul 28, 2015
Every once in a while, my stockbroker and I have lunch. We don’t necessarily do it to adjust my investments. We get together to solve the world’s financial problems. Right now, the world, according to my broker, looks glum. He’s especially annoyed with Greece for not pay
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Your Mind And Your Money: Finding The Balance
Jul 27, 2015
With the baby boomers moving into retirement, the next generation, particularly those in the middle class are “increasingly aware that saving for retirement is on them.” So says Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate.com. (“Fast Facts,” Money, July 2015 pg. 18.)
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No Grounds For Complacency
Jul 24, 2015
Some women in the United States believe equal rights for women is an accomplished fact. In other parts of the world, it’s clear the issue has never been addressed. Women continue to be targets of war and rape remains a common act of terror. In Argentina, tens of thousands of w
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If Women Ruled The Tech World
Jul 22, 2015
Listen up all young women who think feminism went out with the dinosaurs. Discrimination against females in the workplace is alive and well. So says Facebook’s COO, Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In. Never mind that Ellen Pao, former partner with venture capitalist firm, Kleine
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Banking On Discrimination
Jul 20, 2015
We have a social club in my town where the rich and powerful gather to make decisions for the public without the public’s knowledge or consent. It sits, like an exclamation point, at the end of a long, leafy park block near the center of town — white pillars and red brick
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Jul 17, 2015
One function technology has yet to mimic is the brain’s ability to see color. Yes, machines can identify wave lengths associated with color, like 400 nanometers for violet and 590 for red, but the optical illusion the human brain creates to interpret the environment can’t be r
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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.
Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015
Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens. She also published the story Gustav Pavel, a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.
Caroline has published five novels
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